Effects of Medicaid managed care policies on mental health service use among a national probability sample of children in the child welfare system

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1482-1496

  Raghavan, Ramesh ^a   Leibowitz, Arleen A ^b   Andersen, Ronald M ^b   Zima, Bonnie T ^b   Schuster, Mark A ^b,c   Landsverk, John ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SERVICES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carve out; Child welfare; Children; Medicaid; Mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750191778     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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